Cornelius J König
Biographic Data
| ID | 104567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cornelius J König |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cornelius J |
| FAMILY NAME | König |
| SIGNATURE | KÖNIG C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saarland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0477-8293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Entitativity Predicts “Counter-Allyship” Towards a Black Woman Complainant of Violent Sexual Harassment Through Elevated Promiscuity Attributions
Black women in the United States continue to face disproportionate gender-based sexual violence, often compounded by stereotypes that portray them as sexually promiscuous. This study examines how perceptions of entitativity —the belief that Black women form a cohesive, interchangeable group—shape negative reactions toward a Black woman who reports workplace sexual harassment by a White supervisor. Using a sample of White American adults ( N = 197…
Impact of system justification on protest support: Insights from two experimental studies
Collective actions and protests are often considered the most influential means to achieve changes in current systems. Therefore, achieving high support for such actions is essential. However, factors such as system justification or the aim of the actions might reduce public support for collective actions. In two studies, we examined the effects of dispositional and situational system justification on protest support, using between-subjects desig…
Using System Justification Theory to Explain the Support of Migrant Sponsorship in Gulf Countries (kafala)
Millions of individuals work as temporary labor migrants, often in domestic roles, to escape unemployment and support their families through remittances. Labor migrants frequently face exploitation, yet many countries have been slow to reform employment systems for migrants, like the kafala (sponsorship) system common in the Gulf states. To better understand support for the kafala system, we applied System Justification Theory (SJT), a social and…
Personality Characteristics as Predictors of Temporary Labor Migration Intentions and The Moderating Role of Family Influence: A Case of Prospective Ugandan Female Migrant Domestic Workers to Saudi Ar…
With the rising number of temporary migrant workers, there is growing scholarly interest in understanding the factors shaping labor migration intention. This study examined the role of personality characteristics in predicting labor migration intention as housemaids among prospective female migrant domestic workers from Uganda to the Middle East. Personality characteristics included the Big Five factor model, which categorizes personality into fi…
Exhaustion and job satisfaction among internal and external outplacement counsellors
When organisations make employees redundant, they increasingly offer outplacement counselling to them, either in-house or as a service of specialised companies. Despite outplacement counsellors’ importance, their work-related stress has not been studied yet. In this paper we argue that internal (in-house) outplacement counsellors have a particularly demanding job (especially because being employed by firing organisations should increase role conf…
Electronic Monitoring at Work
Employers’ electronic monitoring of employees’ actions, also known as employee surveillance, has become a common phenomenon in contemporary workplaces, enabled by advancements in technology. This comprehensive review synthesizes current knowledge across multiple research streams regarding electronic monitoring. While the overall impact of monitoring on performance appears neutral, a small positive correlation can be observed with strain, and a sm…
High White Racial Identity Predicts Low Allyship With a Black Female Sexual Harassment Complainant: The Critical Role of the Benevolence of a White Alleged Perpetrator
What to expect from opening up ‘black boxes’? Comparing perceptions of justice between human and automated agents
Economic Predictors of Differences in Interview Faking Between Countries: Economic Inequality Matters, Not the State of Economy
Many companies recruit employees from different parts of the globe, and faking behavior by potential employees is a ubiquitous phenomenon. It seems that applicants from some countries are more prone to faking compared to others, but the reasons for these differences are largely unexplored. This study relates country‐level economic variables to faking behavior in hiring processes. In a cross‐national study across 20 countries, participants ( N = 3…
Evidence-based understanding of introductions of research articles
Achieving publications in high-impact journals is a major cornerstone for academic careers in the US and elsewhere in the world. However, apart from novel insights and relevant contributions to the field, there are expectations of editors and reviewers regarding the structure and language of manuscripts that prospective contributors have to adhere to. As these expectations are mostly communicated using best-practice examples, especially internati…
On Leading Meetings: Linking Meeting Outcomes to Leadership Styles
Leading meetings represent a typically and frequently performed leadership task. This study investigated the relationship between the leadership style of supervisors and employees’ perception of meeting outcomes. Results showed that participants reported greater meeting satisfaction when their meeting leader was assessed as a considerate supervisor, with the relationship between considerate leadership style and meeting satisfaction being mediated…
Applicants' Strategic Use of Extreme or Midpoint Responses When Faking Personality Tests
Faking, the intentional distortion of answers to personality tests, is likely a complex process. In particular, participants in previous research have mentioned that they used different kind of strategies to appear more hirable, including systematically more extreme or more midpoint responses. However, quantitative evidence is still lacking. An experiment was conducted in which 327 students (173 women, 153 men, 1 not indicated; M age = 22.1 yr., …
A model for the effects of job insecurity on performance, turnover intention, and absenteeism
This study investigates the effects of job insecurity on four organizationally important outcomes: in‐role behaviour, organizational citizenship behaviour, turnover intention, and absenteeism. A model is tested in which job insecurity is simultaneously a hindrance and a challenge stressor. In particular, job insecurity is proposed to have a predominantly harmful effect on performance, turnover intention, and absenteeism, and it is argued that the…
Integrating Theories of Motivation
Progress toward understanding human behavior has been hindered by discipline-bound theories, dividing our efforts. Fortunately, these separate endeavors are converging and can be effectively integrated. Focusing on the fundamental features of picoeconomics, expectancy theory, cumulative prospect theory, and need theory, we construct a temporal motivational theory (TMT). TMT appears consistent with the major findings from many other investigations…
Anchors Distort Estimates of Expected Duration
This research explored the effect of presenting participants an anchor, which is a salient standard of comparison, before asking them to estimate the amount of time they believe they will need to complete a task (expected duration estimation). Such anchors can be assumed to be common in real-life situations, e.g., duration suggestions made by work colleagues. Participants were 32 students (M age = 23.1 yr., SD = 3.2; 28 women) who received course…
On Leading Meetings: Linking Meeting Outcomes to Leadership Styles
Leading meetings represent a typically and frequently performed leadership task. This study investigated the relationship between the leadership style of supervisors and employees’ perception of meeting outcomes. Results showed that participants reported greater meeting satisfaction when their meeting leader was assessed as a considerate supervisor, with the relationship between considerate leadership style and meeting satisfaction being mediated…
Anchors Distort Estimates of Expected Duration
This research explored the effect of presenting participants an anchor, which is a salient standard of comparison, before asking them to estimate the amount of time they believe they will need to complete a task (expected duration estimation). Such anchors can be assumed to be common in real-life situations, e.g., duration suggestions made by work colleagues. Participants were 32 students (M age = 23.1 yr., SD = 3.2; 28 women) who received course…
Integrating Theories of Motivation
Progress toward understanding human behavior has been hindered by discipline-bound theories, dividing our efforts. Fortunately, these separate endeavors are converging and can be effectively integrated. Focusing on the fundamental features of picoeconomics, expectancy theory, cumulative prospect theory, and need theory, we construct a temporal motivational theory (TMT). TMT appears consistent with the major findings from many other investigations…
A model for the effects of job insecurity on performance, turnover intention, and absenteeism
This study investigates the effects of job insecurity on four organizationally important outcomes: in‐role behaviour, organizational citizenship behaviour, turnover intention, and absenteeism. A model is tested in which job insecurity is simultaneously a hindrance and a challenge stressor. In particular, job insecurity is proposed to have a predominantly harmful effect on performance, turnover intention, and absenteeism, and it is argued that the…
Applicants' Strategic Use of Extreme or Midpoint Responses When Faking Personality Tests
Faking, the intentional distortion of answers to personality tests, is likely a complex process. In particular, participants in previous research have mentioned that they used different kind of strategies to appear more hirable, including systematically more extreme or more midpoint responses. However, quantitative evidence is still lacking. An experiment was conducted in which 327 students (173 women, 153 men, 1 not indicated; M age = 22.1 yr., …
On Leading Meetings: Linking Meeting Outcomes to Leadership Styles
Leading meetings represent a typically and frequently performed leadership task. This study investigated the relationship between the leadership style of supervisors and employees’ perception of meeting outcomes. Results showed that participants reported greater meeting satisfaction when their meeting leader was assessed as a considerate supervisor, with the relationship between considerate leadership style and meeting satisfaction being mediated…
Evidence-based understanding of introductions of research articles
Achieving publications in high-impact journals is a major cornerstone for academic careers in the US and elsewhere in the world. However, apart from novel insights and relevant contributions to the field, there are expectations of editors and reviewers regarding the structure and language of manuscripts that prospective contributors have to adhere to. As these expectations are mostly communicated using best-practice examples, especially internati…
What to expect from opening up ‘black boxes’? Comparing perceptions of justice between human and automated agents
Economic Predictors of Differences in Interview Faking Between Countries: Economic Inequality Matters, Not the State of Economy
Many companies recruit employees from different parts of the globe, and faking behavior by potential employees is a ubiquitous phenomenon. It seems that applicants from some countries are more prone to faking compared to others, but the reasons for these differences are largely unexplored. This study relates country‐level economic variables to faking behavior in hiring processes. In a cross‐national study across 20 countries, participants ( N = 3…
Exhaustion and job satisfaction among internal and external outplacement counsellors
When organisations make employees redundant, they increasingly offer outplacement counselling to them, either in-house or as a service of specialised companies. Despite outplacement counsellors’ importance, their work-related stress has not been studied yet. In this paper we argue that internal (in-house) outplacement counsellors have a particularly demanding job (especially because being employed by firing organisations should increase role conf…
Electronic Monitoring at Work
Employers’ electronic monitoring of employees’ actions, also known as employee surveillance, has become a common phenomenon in contemporary workplaces, enabled by advancements in technology. This comprehensive review synthesizes current knowledge across multiple research streams regarding electronic monitoring. While the overall impact of monitoring on performance appears neutral, a small positive correlation can be observed with strain, and a sm…
High White Racial Identity Predicts Low Allyship With a Black Female Sexual Harassment Complainant: The Critical Role of the Benevolence of a White Alleged Perpetrator
Personality Characteristics as Predictors of Temporary Labor Migration Intentions and The Moderating Role of Family Influence: A Case of Prospective Ugandan Female Migrant Domestic Workers to Saudi Ar…
With the rising number of temporary migrant workers, there is growing scholarly interest in understanding the factors shaping labor migration intention. This study examined the role of personality characteristics in predicting labor migration intention as housemaids among prospective female migrant domestic workers from Uganda to the Middle East. Personality characteristics included the Big Five factor model, which categorizes personality into fi…
Entitativity Predicts “Counter-Allyship” Towards a Black Woman Complainant of Violent Sexual Harassment Through Elevated Promiscuity Attributions
Black women in the United States continue to face disproportionate gender-based sexual violence, often compounded by stereotypes that portray them as sexually promiscuous. This study examines how perceptions of entitativity —the belief that Black women form a cohesive, interchangeable group—shape negative reactions toward a Black woman who reports workplace sexual harassment by a White supervisor. Using a sample of White American adults ( N = 197…
Impact of system justification on protest support: Insights from two experimental studies
Collective actions and protests are often considered the most influential means to achieve changes in current systems. Therefore, achieving high support for such actions is essential. However, factors such as system justification or the aim of the actions might reduce public support for collective actions. In two studies, we examined the effects of dispositional and situational system justification on protest support, using between-subjects desig…
Using System Justification Theory to Explain the Support of Migrant Sponsorship in Gulf Countries (kafala)
Millions of individuals work as temporary labor migrants, often in domestic roles, to escape unemployment and support their families through remittances. Labor migrants frequently face exploitation, yet many countries have been slow to reform employment systems for migrants, like the kafala (sponsorship) system common in the Gulf states. To better understand support for the kafala system, we applied System Justification Theory (SJT), a social and…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Applied Psychology (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)